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Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Chemistry
3148 Wood Hall
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5413
   
Office Phone: (269) 387-2265 
FAX: (269) 387-2909
Lab Phone: (269) 387-2246
Advising Hours with Dr. Schoffers are during the Spring and Fall semester only. Advising is held in the new Satellite Office (2220 Chemistry Bldg). Every student needs to sign up via the new online reservation system here.
Office Hours:
MF 11AM-noon or by appointment in 3148 Wood Hall
   
Events
    Harmon Lecture:
    Dr. Gunda Georg will be our special Harmon lecturer this semester. Details TBA.

Gunda I. Georg, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head, Robert Vince Endowed Chair, McKnight Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Director, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota
   
   
Research
    Recent Publications:
   

Lars Kohler, Elke Schoffers, Erin Driscoll, Matthias Zeller and Carla Schmiesing “First isolation of disubstituted cis-5,6-dihydro-1,10-phenanthrolines. Lipase-mediated resolution of cis and trans phenoxy alcohol isomers and assignment of absolute stereochemistry via CD and NMR” Chirality , 2012, Article first published online: 18 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1002/chir.21989
    Petra R. A. Kohler, Jasmine Y. Zheng, Elke Schoffers, and Silvia Rossbach; "Inositol Catabolism, a Key Pathway in Sinorhizobium meliloti for Competitive Host Nodulation." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2010, 76 (24), 7972-7980.
   

Elke Schoffers, Lars Kohler; "Efficient alcoholysis of 5,6-dihydro-1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-epoxide with ytterbium(III) triflate and subsequent enantioselective transesterification with lipases." Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2009, 20, 1897-1902.
     
    Miscellaneous:
    WMU hosted the first Poster Symposium by our ExpeRTS/HHMI Fellows as part of the new WMU Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program: Experiencing Research for Teaching Science. News release here; About the grant here. More about HHMI here
     
    Critical Comment: New Details on Legume-Rhizobial Symbioses as part of the Rossbach-Schoffers collaboration
    Meet the Research Group here
    Group News here
    Ongoing Research Projects here
    Research Openings here
    Dr. Schoffers' Vita here
     
   
Careers
   

What you can do with a CHEMISTRY degree - check the local ACS here
   
Career resources for CHEMISTRY graduate students - WMU link here
   
   
Course Information
   
CHEM 3750 Organic Chemistry I here
Exam 1, Monday January 30 (Ch 1 and 2). Students must present a picture ID.
   
   
CHEM 3710 Intro to Organic Chemistry Lab here
   
CHEM 3760 Organic Chemistry Lab I here
   
CHEM 3780 Organic Chemistry Lab II here
     
   
In The News
    Science / Education /Politics:
    8/31/11 " Germany set another record with renewable energy" here
    "Lait Couture" - You can make clothes from milk protein, find out what Anke Domaske has spun here
    Follow updates about the nuclear disaster in Japan via NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) here
    The latest assessment of the Japanese nuclear disaster can be found by the Union of Concerned Scientists here
    Dr. Michio Kaku: Despite Japanese Gov’t Claims of Decreasing Radiation, Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb" here
    "A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott" here
    "How Dangerous Is Japan's Creeping Nuclear Disaster?" (SPIEGEL ONLINE) here
    "Natural Gas Industry Attacks Oscar-Nominated Film “Gasland” for Chronicling Devastating Impact of Hydraulic Fracking" here (Democracy Now broadcast)
    "America is not broke" Today just 400 Americans have the same welth as half of all Americans combined here (Democracy Now broadcast)
    Documentaries "Gasland" and "Inside Job" are nominated for Academy Award. See here for "burning" water as a result of fracking (ca 4 minutes into the broadcast here)
     
    Toxic Toys - A NOW presentation on plastics with phthalates here.
    Comments about environmental and natural resources via Resource Insights.
    Comments about the economic crisit via ISLET.
    What's the connection between soil chemistry, plants and climate change? See: Can wetland restoration cool the planet? Restoration of saltwater marshes is a sure bet for sequestering carbon.
     
     
    Flu season-related articles:
    ---"Shots in the dark" by S. Brownlee, J. Lenzer, the Atlantic Monthlly, Nov. 2009, 44-54
    ---"Epidemic influenza and vitamin D" by J. J. Cannell et al, Epidemiol. Infect. 2006, 134, 1129-1140
    ---"Vitamin D supplementation, 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations, and safety" by R. Vieth, Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1999, 69, 842-56
     
     
   
Other Articles
    "Science in Muslim Countries by I. Serageldin here.
     
     
   
Personal Notes & Links
    *Interesting Titles here
    *Links TBA
    *Family Photos TBA
     
     
   
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